SIGMORPHON 2008: Three correlates of typological frequency
I’m happy to report that Jason Riggle and I have had our submission accepted to the SIGMORPHON 2008 Workshop, which takes place concurrently with the annual meeting of the ACL at The Ohio State University this June 19th.
The citation of the paper is as follows:
Bane, Max and Jason Riggle. To appear. Three correlates of the typological frequency of quantity-insensitive stress systems.
A copy of the paper is available on ROA as document number 966.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
We examine the typology of quantity-insensitive (QI) stress systems and ask to
what extent an existing optimality theoretic model of QI stress can predict
the observed typological frequencies of stress patterns. We find three
significant correlates of pattern attestation and frequency: the trigram
entropy of a pattern, the degree to which it is “confusable” with other
patterns predicted by the model, and the number of constraint rankings that
specify the pattern.